Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

While the Obama administration continues to decide how and when to end the military’s anti-homosexual policy, the U.S. Department of Justice is defending “don’t ask, don’t tell” against a lawsuit brought by gay Republicans.   The Log Cabin Repub...   read more

The wealth disparity between America’s richest and the poor and middle class more than tripled from 1979 to 2007, based on data that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities examined from the Congressional Budget Office.   The information led ...   read more

What has saved or prolonged millions of lives may also have caused thousands of deaths, according to an InvestigateWest examination into the risks of health care workers delivering chemotherapy to cancer patients.   Derived from chemicals used t...   read more

Brian Miller really knows how to save the government money. The inspector general for the General Services Administration is so good at his job that over a four-year period, he found ways to save $160 in GSA operations for every $1 his office was ...   read more

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan has become the first sitting head of state ever to be charged by the International Criminal Court with committing crimes of genocide. The charges stem from a long campaign targeting three of Sudan’s ethnic ...   read more

Going beyond traditional methods of military training, the U.S. Marine Corps is sending its men on ride-alongs with Los Angeles police officers to learn how to apply anti-gang tactics to fighting the Taliban.   About 70 Marines, dressed in civil...   read more

It’s not out of the question that the United States might not be around long enough to see the complete cleanup of its Cold War legacy in Washington State.   Not far from the banks of the Columbia River resides the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, o...   read more

It is no wonder parents are having a tougher time these days sending their children to college. A new study by the Delta Cost Project shows college tuition at all institutions of higher learning is rising faster than income and inflation, based on...   read more

While allowing the weed-killer Atrazine to be sprayed in enormous quantities throughout the United States, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has relied on scientific studies that have been mostly funded by the industry.   A review o...   read more

The Catholic Church’s headquarters in Rome announced over the weekend that it lost money for the third year in a row. Expenses outpaced revenues for the Vatican in 2009 by $5.2 million ($314.7 million in revenue against $319.9 million in expenses)...   read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Obama administration is employing a quieter approach to going after illegal immigrants employed in the United States. Instead of conducting high-profile raids of factories, farms and other busine...   read more

After considerable dilution of the financial reform bill in Congress, it seems Wall Street’s supporters and lobbyists missed a provision that could lead to the breakup of large banks during another economic crisis.   As Simon Johnson, professor ...   read more

Wealth accumulation among the richest North Americans (excluding Mexico) grew in 2009, with millionaires in the U.S. and Canada enjoying a 15% increase in their total worth. Collectively, these millionaires possessed $4.6 trillion, according to a ...   read more

Hospitals and doctors’ offices throw away an enormous amount of used, and unused, medical supplies and equipment each year, prompting advocates to call on the industry to address the mountain of waste. Some medical professionals are beginning to h...   read more

Hollman Morris has earned a reputation as a hard-hitting investigative journalist in Colombia, exposing abuses by government officials and paramilitary groups. This body of work may be what’s keeping Morris from visiting the United States, accordi...   read more

Chosen by President Barack Obama to rebuild the dwindling (both in terms of size and reputation) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is Rajiv Shah, a doctor and researcher formerly with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He was c...   read more